Q. My Ethernet aliases are randomly switched and they are bound to the wrong interface. My eth0 became eth1 and eth1 become eth0. This is causing all sort of trouble for services and firewall configurations. How do I swap back and make sure Ethernet aliases works correctly under CentOS Linux server?

Q. Recently we made changes to our server hardware and swapped all IP address from old to a new server. However, 2 IP addresses are not get updated due to arp cache issues (IPs are cached on the router). They are going to other servers. How do I solve this problem under Redhat Enterprise Linux version 5.0 or any other Linux distribution?Continue reading “Router ARP Cache is Not Releasing Linux / UNIX Server IP address”

Q. How do I check security of my network by running ICMP IP Network Scanning under FreeBSD / Linux? How do I subnet broadcast addresses? All I wanted to see if my firewall is working or not.

A.Internet Control Message Protocol (ICMP) one of the core protocols of the Internet protocol suite. It is chiefly used by networked computers’ operating systems to send error messagesâ€”indicating, for instance, that a requested service is not available or that a host or router could not be reached.

ICMP IP Network Scanning with nmap tool

You can use regular open source tool called nmap. Type the following command to run ICMP IP Scan:$ nmap -sP -PI 192.168.1.0/24 Output: